CAMPAIGN BRIEFING: THE STATES

CAMPAIGN BRIEFING: THE STATES; COLORADO'S ELECTORAL VOTES

By Kirk Johnson (NYT)

Published: August 17, 2004

Colorado residents will vote in November on whether to scrap the state's winner-take-all system of distributing Electoral College votes. The secretary of state said that enough valid signatures had been gathered to put the proposal on the ballot. The rule would become immediate if it passes, meaning that the state's nine electoral votes would be distributed proportionally to the presidential candidates based on the percentage of the vote each earned statewide. President Bush won the state in 2000 with just less than 51 percent of the vote. The state went from eight to nine electoral votes as a result of the 2000 census. Kirk Johnson (NYT)